“I have a very precocious eight year old daughter who began speaking at nine months and decided that she would marry a woman before she turned two. She learned the term lesbian from the show Supergirl, and now matter of factly proclaims herself a lesbian to anyone.”
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts doesn’t have an index, so I made one for it. I can promise that it is both longer and shorter than you think.
If witches are a way to tell stories about women and power, vampires are a way to tell stories about women and sex.
Did you love Susan Choi’s My Education, about a sexy student/professor love affair? Here are eight more books you won’t want to miss.
Welcome to your list of queer and/or feminist books coming out in fall 2016. New Zadie Smith, Ivan Coyote, Anne Carson, Margaret Atwood, Bae Suah and more.
Is there room in your boat, Anne Shirley?
Finish out your summer with some queer engineer approved picks.
I want to spend some time this summer really cracking in to books about technology, especially when the ideas therein have special and specific interaction with the queer digital space I occupy for so much of my time. Here’s my list.
Imagine queercrip figures that resist limited notions of embodiment and medical pathology, and demand more expansive understandings of disability, gender and sexuality.
These memoirs, biographies, and autobiographies tell the stories of women who ran countries around the world — from the top.
The stories of 10 American women who fundamentally altered history simply by showing up and working like hell — in their own words.
“4. Passionate Vegetarian – Crescent Dragonwagon”
The South’s conservative and religious majority has made it nearly impossible to suss out the queers in classic Southern literature and in the history books. That’s why this list exists.
Want to combine your values and your hobbies with some feminist coloring books? We’ve got you more than covered.
Brain Pickings’ Maria Popova curated a reading list just for Autostraddle readers!
Welcome to your list of queer/ feminist books coming out from January to July 2016. Roxane Gay, Gabby Rivera and erotica, anyone?
Read these f*cking books.
From figuring out your own gender politics to launching massive campaigns and everything in-between, these books have your back as queer people, women, people of color, and other folks living at the intersections. The bonus? They’re also all badass as f*ck.
This book is not a manual to create The Feminist Utopia; it is a process that you are invited to share in.
I’m reading a book about hackers right now and feel like maybe some of y’all want to join me. Just a feeling I had.